Because the herd defies the carrying capacity narrative.
You can’t be telling the American people that public lands in the western U.S. can only support one wild horse per thousand acres (27,000 animals on 27 million acres) when the Virginia Range is carrying ten.
Advocates with the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses are trying to erase the outlier with the approval of the Nevada Department of Agriculture—the same agency pushing for the fences.
If areas identified for wild horses were managed principally for them, as specified in the original statute, there’d be no reason to cram 70,000 wild animals into government feedlots at taxpayer expense.
BLM allotments in ten western states support livestock equivalent to seven wild horses per thousand acres, another indication that the bureaucrats, ranchers and advocates aren’t telling you the truth.
Messrs. Burgum, Musk and Ramaswamy, are you listening?
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